Patrick Welche | 2 Jun 2003 19:44
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Xinerama

I just noticed that libXinera just gets built statically (from xsrc of May 12)
Does it matter? Is there a reason?

Cheers,

Patrick

Nick Hudson | 3 Jun 2003 00:35
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PIC libraries and pr/20352

Unless someone has a better idea I plan on adding DoPicLib support to 

	xc/config/cf/Library.tmpl

The idea is to create static libraries of objects compiled with -fPIC(if 
needed) with the name template libfoo_pic.a in much the same way as 
bsd.lib.mk does.

My current thinking is to enable DoPicLib for only those libraries that don't 
have DoSharedLib set, i.e.

	FS           
	FontEnc      
	GLw          
	Phigs 
	Xau
	Xdmcp
	Xres
	Xinerama     
	Xss  
	XvMC         
	xf86dga     
	xf86misc    
	xf86rush   
	xf86vm      

Although obviously DoPicLib could be set for all libraries if required.

There is the option of defining StatcNeedsPicForShared (for all platforms 
except vax and mips), but this has the disadvantage that these X libraries 
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Matthias Scheler | 6 Jun 2003 23:03
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Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts

In article <200305062040.h46KeFt02045 <at> s102-n054.tele2.cz>,
	Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek <at> netbsd.org> writes:
> Thus, I'd like to turn HasPerl to YES in NetBSD.cf, and update
> the XF4 xfonts set to include the additional files.

Perl is no it the base system and can be at different locations. I hence
object to this change.

> Opinions?

Create a package for the international fonts like I did e.g. for the
"xcursorgen" program.

> Note: unless you volunteer to rewrite the script, don't scream "this is
> wrong".

But it is wrong.

> It's not good to have crippled xsrc set.

It's even better to have various build failures because either don't have
Perl or have a wrong version.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler | 6 Jun 2003 23:05
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Re: Xinerama

In article <20030602184400.A2667 <at> quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk>,
	Patrick Welche <prlw1 <at> newn.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I just noticed that libXinera just gets built statically (from xsrc of
> May 12). Is there a reason?

The XFree86 maintainer usually turn off shared libraries when the ABI
and API of library is still undergoing heavy changes.

This is a settings we shouldn't override even some Linux distribution
vendors do so.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler | 6 Jun 2003 23:06
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Re: PIC libraries and pr/20352

In article <200306022205.26594.skrll <at> netbsd.org>,
	Nick Hudson <skrll <at> netbsd.org> writes:
> Unless someone has a better idea I plan on adding DoPicLib support to 
> 
> 	xc/config/cf/Library.tmpl
[...]
> Thoughts?

Please do so. But don't forget to update the distribution sets.

	Kind regards

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Martin Husemann | 7 Jun 2003 01:39
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Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:03:40PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> Create a package for the international fonts like I did e.g. for the
> "xcursorgen" program.

Well, unlike the xcursorgen program (which I realy consider optional), the
fonts in the binary X sets should be complete. Can we acomplish that with
a pkgsrc based aproach?

Martin

Perry E. Metzger | 7 Jun 2003 04:43
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Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts


Martin Husemann <martin <at> duskware.de> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:03:40PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> > Create a package for the international fonts like I did e.g. for the
> > "xcursorgen" program.
> 
> Well, unlike the xcursorgen program (which I realy consider optional), the
> fonts in the binary X sets should be complete. Can we acomplish that with
> a pkgsrc based aproach?

We can't.

I think it is okay to require that the tool be installed to do a build.

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Matthias Scheler | 7 Jun 2003 06:02
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Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts

In article <20030606233916.GC2276 <at> drowsy.duskware.de>,
	Martin Husemann <martin <at> duskware.de> writes:
> Well, unlike the xcursorgen program (which I realy consider optional), the
> fonts in the binary X sets should be complete.

Than somebody who understands Perl should rewrite "ucs2any.pl" as e.g.
a C program(*). Using a kludge is not the NetBSD way to solve a problem.

	Kind regards

(*) Yes, I would do it. Unfortunately my knowledge about Perl is very
    limited and I just don't understand the source code.

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James Chacon | 9 Jun 2003 15:51
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Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts

Actually it's not that hard to redo in awk (I looked about a week ago).

James

>
>In article <20030606233916.GC2276 <at> drowsy.duskware.de>,
>	Martin Husemann <martin <at> duskware.de> writes:
>> Well, unlike the xcursorgen program (which I realy consider optional), the
>> fonts in the binary X sets should be complete.
>
>Than somebody who understands Perl should rewrite "ucs2any.pl" as e.g.
>a C program(*). Using a kludge is not the NetBSD way to solve a problem.
>
>	Kind regards
>
>(*) Yes, I would do it. Unfortunately my knowledge about Perl is very
>    limited and I just don't understand the source code.
>
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>Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/
>
>
>

Matthias Scheler | 9 Jun 2003 16:00
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Re: XF86 4.x and international fonts

In article <200306091351.JAA14766 <at> chacons.net>,
	James Chacon <jmc <at> netbsd.org> writes:
> Actually it's not that hard to redo in awk

As I don't understand Perl really I can not rate this. But a C replacement
is already underway.

	Kind regards

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